1. Pre Disaster Recovery Planning I n t e r n a t I o n a l R e c o v e r y P l a t f o r m

2. 1 What Is Pre-disaster Recovery Planning? • Why Plan For Recovery Before A Disaster Happens? • At What Scale Should Pre-planning Take Place? • How Does PDRP Fit Within The Disaster Management Cycle? • How Does One Pre-plan For Recovery • Getting Started • Collecting Preliminary Information • Establishing The Post Disaster Recovery Organization • Formulating Recovery Principles And Goals • Defining Strategies And Actions • 11 Assessing And Maintaining The Plan Contents

3. Benefits of PDRP • PDRP consists of three components - • Developing goals and strategies for post disaster recovery based on disaster scenarios • Creating a recovery organizational structure with post disaster roles and responsibilities • Planning pre-disaster actions that will expedite post disaster planning • PDRP - • Expedites recovery • Reduces risk of future disasters - Building back better • Enables demand-driven and inclusive recovery • Minimizes development deficits • Reduces recovery costs INTRODUCTION

4. Getting Started • Pre-Planning Process

5. Planning Team Members Creating the Planning Team Include not only departments involved in post disaster recovery, but also those that could provide resources

6. A tale of two cities • Hillsborough County, Florida • An existing recovery task force assigned to lead post-disaster recovery efforts led the PDRP. With a pre-planning team of over 100 representatives, eight sub committees were formed focusing on particular sectors (housing, economy, health, etc.) • Panama City, Florida • Responsibility for Panama City’s PDRP rested with the executive committee. The 27 member executive committee composed of city and county officials as well as other local and regional stakeholders. Because of its smaller size the committee developed the plan as a whole group, engaging other stakeholders where further expertise was needed or working at times in small groups for specific issues. The PDRP process was facilitated by a hired consulting firm, who also produced the final plan.

7. Steps 1. CREATE DISASTER SCENARIO 2. ANALYSE EXISTING PLANS THAT ADDRESS RECOVERY-RELATED ISSUES Development plans Disaster risk reduction / mitigation plans Emergency response / disaster relief plans Business Continuity Plans 3. DETERMINE KEY AREAS OF INTERVENTION

8. Steps • NOTE: Whilst determining the areas of intervention think of:

9. Steps • Schema: Steps for Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning

10. Recovery Support Functions • RSF bring together departments and agencies to collaborate on recovery needs. By organizing long-term recovery into these RSF, relevant stakeholders and experts can effectively be brought together to identify and resolve recovery challenges. • Provides a model coordinating structure for stakeholders, such as local governments, businesses, and voluntary, faith-based and community organizations. This helps facilitate local stakeholder participation and promote inter-governmental and public-private partnerships. • Each RSF has - • RSF coordinator ensures communication and coordination between primary and support agencies. • RSF primary agency is a Federal or Local agency with significant authorities, roles, resources, or capabilities for a particular function. • Support agencies are those entities with specific capabilities or resources that support the primary agency in executing the mission of the RSF. • Source: National Disaster Recovery Framework Draft February 5, 2010 United States

11. Strategies and Actions PLAN STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS Sample: Education-related strategy

12. Strategies and Actions Determine how the strategy will be operationalized - Action Plan

13. Notes • NOTE: Be sure to estimate disaster impacts on revenue sources and availability of public funds for recovery • Actions should include procedures for organizing a recovery budget. Elucidation of the principles for a Recovery Financial Plan, identifying methods to access funds for recovery, and their payback, would save time and effort during the actual recovery. • Principles for tax incentives for businesses, increase of taxes, issue of bonds and other means may be determined in the PDRP. • NOTE:Pre-contracting of suppliers and pre-audit procedures and guidelines can be key policy principles of the PDRP.

14. Tokyo pre-disaster recovery exercises EXERCISE THE PLAN

15. Notes • NOTE: Involve the development planners in the simulation. As a consequence, they will have better understanding, once they see the PDRP in action. • REVIEW AND UPDATE THE PLAN • Every 3-5 years

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